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From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: McWhorter
 

	
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From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: McWhorter

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Title: Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity 
Subtitle: Why Do Languages Undress? 
Series Title: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] 1  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9781934078372-1 


Author: John H. McWhorter

Electronic: ISBN:  9781934078402 Pages: 332 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781934078372 Pages: 332 Price: Europe EURO 99.95


Abstract:

In John McWhorter's Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles 
conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are 
definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense. His 
publications since the 1990s have argued that all languages of the world that 
lack a certain three traits together are creoles (i.e. born as pidgins a few 
hundred years ago and fleshed out into real languages). He also argued that in 
light of their pidgin birth, such languages are less grammatically complex than 
others, as the result of their recent birth as pidgins. These two claims have 
been highly controversial among creolists as well as other linguists.

In this volume, Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity, McWhorter gathers articles 
he has written since then, in the wake of responses from a wide range of 
creolists and linguists. These articles represent a considerable divergence in 
direction from his earlier work. 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Historical Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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